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"Overwhelmed by life, Moses rents a beach house in a small coastal town. The ocean calls to him and his daily swims become a form of meditation. Just as Moses is starting to heal, a stranger turns up on the beach and unsettles everything. Ronnie evades even...
"This dream doesn’t feel like a dream. He tries to lift his head. Can’t do it. There is a doorway to his left, and beyond it a brightly lit corridor. Somebody walks past – a nurse … James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’...
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Maori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing...
"A millennial New Yorker, a Stewart Island fisherman, and a WW II veteran walk into a bar... Maudie's on the run - from New York and from her past - but she runs headlong into her future when she ends up on Rakiura Stewart Island on assignment to cover...
"Returning to Kent after filming a paranormal documentary at an ancient estate in Wales, the WASP team members try to resume their normal lives, but they soon become aware that something has changed. Dianna, the team’s psychic, suspects that they have brought...
If you had the power to rewrite people's thoughts... would you? As a thirty-five-year-old farmer on a colony world, Raith is a kind and simple man, with a catch - he's only existed for two years. His previous life is a mystery; the only clue to his past is a...
"For thousands of years, the passion between Alexander, Archangel of Persia, and Zanaya, Queen of the Nile, burned furious and bright, seemingly without end. But to be an archangel is to be bound to power violent and demanding. Driven by its primal energy,...
Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking...
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What can you do when the Cold War goes from a simmer to boiling? In East Germany, the kinder create a symbol of hope to halt the nuclear missiles. Erfurt, October 1962. Teenager Ingrid Richter's life involves adventures with the Pioneers, walks in the...
An evocative novel about secrets, disillusion and a unique place. Luke Freeman returns from the Second World War keen to start a new life with his wife, Constance, and eleven-year-old daughter, Emily. However, after arriving in Northland, it is clear the patch...
When I called the mayor a "cockwomble", it didn't go down well.Jewel Bauer has always been the underdog in whatever situation she lands in, and unfortunately her 'act now, think later' approach to life - or, as she puts it, "being the biggest numpty this side...
'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.' So begins one of Owen Marshall's superbly subversive stories. He offers up a wide range of...
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Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending...
Something is drawing Jena Benedict's family to darkness. Her mother, father, brother and baby sister are killed in a barn fire, and Grandmother Rose banishes Jena from the farm. Now, twenty years on, Rose is dying, and Jena returns home wanting answers about...
If the handle of spade was going to break; if the tree was going to come back down across the car; if they were going to close just before you got there; if the tractor was going to back through the fence into the boss's wife's ornamental goldfish-pond; if the...
If old age doesn't get her...the murderer will.97 year old Alice Atkinson should be comfortably living out her days at the Silvermoon Retirement Village. But she's bored. A lifetime of living in the grey area between right and wrong means that winning money...
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring down the coal: ex-goldminers down on their luck,...
''Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits - but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we're staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is...
"Matthew Flint. WWII British soldier. Escaped POW. Polish Underground agent. Young Matthew Flint is intoxicated by the romance of war - until his first encounter with German invading forces. From that moment he is a man on a mission - revenge. After escaping...
Tarquin the Honest, Wizard of the Silver Weasel, is a liar, a coward, a charlatan and a cheat. And, according to his diminutive roguish sidekick Lunar Nix, those are his most endearing qualities. On a perilous quest to recover. The Golden Gauntlet for a...
Marius Valstar doesn't know which is worse: the dead body in his greenhouse or the fae prince on his desk. The only rakes of interest to Marius are garden tools. Not fae princes. Certainly not the arrogant, selfish fae prince he has the misfortune to have a...
"A drug boss from Auckland tries to set up a meth manufacturing business at a remote yet scenic location at South Head, metres from the Kaipara Harbour. He hires some inept locals to run the operation, with predictable results. In the meantime, ex SAS...
''When popular TV baking contest and national institution 'The Best of British Baking Roadshow' rolls into town and sets up camp in the grounds of Boskern House, a historic stately home near Penstowan, former police officer Jodie 'Nosey' Parker finds herself...
Penrose & Pyke venture to the edge of madness, when they reunite to investigate two tragic deaths and an old mystery. The last words of a frightened woman may be a vital clue to the disappearance of an old friend, if they aren't the ravings of delusional...
"Jenni knows there must be more to life. She believes her life will finally begin when she loses her excess weight. As Jenni explores a final desperate attempt to lose weight, she ... comes to understand that the weight of any woman does not determine whether...
A fantastic and phasmagoric collection of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful short fiction to come out of Aotearoa in 2022.
"Family, friends, secrets ... It wasn't always like this. Mila is a child of the northern bush and she has a gift. Descended from generations of healers, Mila is surrounded by a happy extended family, and delights in the sights, sounds and scents of her...
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"A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists. Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of autobiographical fiction. From one of...
Her mother dead from a drug overdose, thirteen-year-old Olivia is rescued by Cathie Tulloch, her mother's friend throughout the years they were held captive in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra in WWII. Welcomed into the Tulloch's remote family home in the...
"After all they've suffered, rebel sorcerer Raythe Vyre and his fortune-seekers are still empty-handed, but they've found real treasure: peace. Deep inside the Ice wastes, Raythe's people stumbled upon Rath Argentium, the legendary Aldar city, and the...
"Alexandra, 1866 the gold rush has been and gone. Alexandra is fast becoming a town of dwindling opportunities, especially for Ginny Doyle, and intelligent, young Irish woman with dreams of painting her way through Europe. New life is breathed into the town as...
When Clarissa's online life clashes with her real one, she comes face-to-face with the man of her fantasies. With the help of friends and family, and a romantic trip, can Clarissa and Mark overcome their painful pasts to take a shot at happily ever...
"CEO Eli Lockwood is in over his head. Running his multi-million dollar empire? No problem. Relating to his rebellious little sister who has been entrusted to his care? That's a different story. And it's just his rotten luck that the only woman who doesn't...
"Sophie Delaware is ready to climb out of the slump she's been in since she ditched her lying, cheating ex. There's no way she wants to commit to another relationship any time soon, but a hot, short-term hookup? That's a different story entirely. What she...
Dr. Avery Brown is too busy dealing with revolutionizing forensic science to deal with emotional entanglements. But when her breakthrough puts her in the crosshairs of a killer, she has no choice but to accept help from Sergeant Gareth Wayland. Can they trust...
"Sexual assault, incest, grief and loss, love, family relationships, friendships, small town dynamics "--Publisher information.
"The year is 2017 and Leah Hart is your typical Kiwi girl who has just finished her final year of high school. During a camping trip with friends, Leah finds herself in a more primitive time in New Zealand history, 1832. Beyond all reasonable judgement, Leah...
"In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded New Zealand and Australian troops. After a few months, however, she realises that nothing at all...
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"Moving away from Munich isn't as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and on their doorstep are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for...
"One weekend in Prague / Alison Roberts - For one weekend...or forever? Before attending a medical conference, trauma specialist Mac meets stranger Hanna under the Astronomical clock in Prague. Their intense connection takes him by surprise. Straight-laced Mac...
"A pandemic spread over their planet and swept them from history. In a desperate act to save their species they launched a remnant of survivors into the depths of space, frozen in cryo-sleep, to be awakened only when their ship detected a habitable planet. But...
"Hidden in the dense bush of the Manawatu, a tiny skeleton lies overgrown with weeds. DSS Archie Baldrick and DC Ben Travers discover that the victim is a young child who went missing from a rural skate park twenty years earlier. Who could possibly have...
"Brooke's life has derailed. Her social life and career have evaporated, her daughter is desperately unhappy and being bullied at school, and for a 43-year-old, she probably spends too many weekends at her parents' house. But the reason for all of this is no...
"Euphemia Sage follows a friend to the Acceptance Institute Retreat on Waiheke Island to stop her from giving away all her money. Once there she is trapped in her room, the only food is green and she is not allowed to exercise (properly). Her friend won't...
"Song of the Brakeman happens in a world where the earth's resources are almost exhausted, the water supplies are contaminated and parts of the landmasses have imploded. But the crisis into which this novel plunges the reader is not only an ecological one. An...
"Olwyn's story is a concentrated hymn to slackers and bogans everywhere. All those ex-hippies, all those old metallers, all those drug-addled potheads have found, at last, their laureate. She understands them, she can paint them with devastating wit and...
"White City is a collection of short stories set mostly in and around Auckland's Albert Park, but even those stories that travel far away from the park seem subtly inhabited by its breezes, colours, shadows and sounds. Brown treats his characters with...
"Trouble in Mind is an intense voyage into the life of a young woman, and a serious reflection upon the art of novel-writing. It is at once a twenty-first century novel and not a novel at all, but an eyeball, subject and object, made up of a million...
"Real and unreal landscapes, science fiction, rural New Zealand, the West Coast of the USA from Oregon to San Francisco, three stories in various voices and settings. In Digging Ground a family is separated by circumstance and by the state after a cataclysmic...
"Marked Men tells the story of love between two men. The drama has a dream-like quality, that affirms the isolation and fragility of a human being, bordered by skin, who aches for connection in the embrace of another. David Lyndon Brown draws us into a world...
"In a neglected corner of Travesty, in an apartment building called the rathouse, five marginals take on the universe ... It all comes together on the Day of Delight. Welcome to Travesty, where the stringent laws of purgatory rule and every nerve is put to the...
"Moonshine Eggs is the third novel in a trilogy of works based around the whimsical and comedic character of Harry Rejekt. Inseparable from his dog and his inherited crumbling farmhouse, Harry dreams of worldly travel whilst rarely venturing out from the...
"Born in the middle of Australia's biggest-ever earthquake, Miracle is fourteen when her world crumbles. Thanks to her dad's new job at Compassionate Cremations - which falls under suspicion for Boorunga's spate of sudden deaths - the entire town turns against...
A bride's wedding ends in tragedy when her matron of honour is brutally murdered. Detective Inspector Ian Anderson leads the investigation. He will need all his skills to find the killer whose identity and trademarks are as mysterious as the motive behind the...
"Marcus and James are still recovering from the death of their fellow investigator, Tim. They capture the interest of a film director, who invites them to an old Welsh site to conduct a televised investigation. Here, they reveal evidence of a dark history of...
"Wellington, 1939. A hot summer’s day at a church picnic. Adelaide watches as a girl is rescued from the river and resolves to meet the unassuming hero of the moment. After a claustrophobic, strict childhood, John Brunner is Adelaide’s chance for a new...
2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of legendary New Zealander Barry Crump's first novel, A Good Keen Man. Crump worked for many years as a government deer-culler and the book was the result of his collected experiences.
"When Ricky's beloved Aunt Bella dies and Social Welfare threatens to put him into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of...
"After a treacherous journey across the globe, Maia and Lucas have finally arrived at the mighty gates of Leucothea. But after waking up in the city’s guarded and locked Migrant Facility, Maia quickly discovers things are not as they seem. Why can’t she...
"When Tracey marries Hank Carrington, her plan for a family quickly turns to one of survival after he returns to his homeland for a funeral. Tired of waiting and frustrated by his ongoing absence, she goes back to work for her long-time friend, Alec Birch. A...
"Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not...
"We're not committing suicide here. Trust me, we're coming back." Four women resist the thought of sliding into old age and decide to meet the challenge head on. "It's a bit like Russian Roulette," says Heather. "The chances are better in that," replies...
"Erfurt, October 1962. Life for 13-year-old Ingrid Richter is pleasant. Autumn involves adventures with the Pioneers, walks in the Steigerwald, the Martini festival in the medieval Altstadt. In a few weeks, she will be gliding across the skating rink with...
"The face of death ... When Detective Inspector Ian Anderson receives a chilling message on a lazy Sunday morning, he meets death in the form of a beautiful young factory worker, Jess Barton. Her mangled body leaves few clues for the dedicated detective. It is...
"Stars don't twinkle. They burn like a billion bombs. The spaceship Domina Penelope crosses interstellar space in search of a new Earth. As it approaches the star system Norse the mission leader, Father Chadwick, struggles to control his crew. Worse, after...
"Crippled in a war not of his making and returned home broken and scorned by some, Tom Yelich stumbles into an undercover world of shadows, where the worlds intelligence agencies vie for supremacy in the deadly Great Game being played on the streets of...
"A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over... Already struggling to juggle co-running Candlebark's pub/bistro along with her new childcare responsibilities, what Judi doesn't need...
"Eight year old Trisha is murdered in her bed. Her ten year old sister Zoe is nearby but she remembers nothing of the event. The murderer was never found. Thirteen years later teacher and university student Zoe throws a missile at a lecturer and must undertake...
"Direen's latest novel Enclosures is infused with restlessness: its interlocking stories move between France, Iraq, Wellington, and some of the wilder sections of the New Zealand coast. Like Direen's 2006 novel Song of the Brakeman, which was full of...
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly...
Cowrie wins a scholarship and moves to San Francisco, a world away from her island home. Perched in the borrowed apartment of a lesbian film-maker, Cowrie explores this familiar world with fresh eyes. She falls in love - with food, with her new life, and with...
Cowrie boards a ship bound for Moruroa Atoll during the French nuclear tests. She is in for a rough ride. As international attention is focused on the Pacific and the environment, the stakes rise sharply. Dive into a luscious feast of language and imagery,...
Cowrie travels to Hawaii and as she circles the island in an old pick-up truck we discover the tokens of her heritage. Sensual and sexual language brings the earth to life, and Cowrie too as she tests the limits of her endurance and explores her erotic...
"Marie and Vincent Broom enjoy a pleasant life on Hong Kong Island. Vincent is a New Zealander. Marie, born in Macau, is Portuguese-Chinese. Married for ten years, the couple have four adored children - daughters aged 9, 8 and 5 and a baby son of 14 months. It...
Masterton isn't a big town. The community's tight, if not always harmonious. So when a child goes missing it's a big deal for everyone. And when a second kid disappears, the whole town's holding their own children that little bit tighter. Lorraine doesn't have...
"In the heady gold rush days of the 1860s, men went missing and were never found. Some drowned, some starved, some simply disappeared never to be seen again. The third book in the Riverstones series, Sticks and Stones, continues the story of Mary Healey and...
"'Find Me!' Those are the words on the note crumpled in Laney Donohue's disabled sister's hand. All Laney knows is that the young nurse aid who wrote them was taken by a man, and no one stopped him. Laney owes this young woman. She cared for Laney's sister...
"We all imagine escaping into new worlds, but how challenging would it really be to survive? What if you were dragged through a gateway into a place filled with magic...and you had none? On Midsummer's Eve, Isabella Mackay finds herself pulled through the...
"19 short stories from some of the brightest storytelling talents from Australia and New Zealand: including international bestsellers and award winners. Through the prism of page-turning crime, mystery and thriller stories you will roam from the dusty Outback...
There's Di, waking up in hospital, feeling scrubbed raw. Ritchie and Willy, toasting their dead friend with ginger beer. Kiri, frantically searching for a lost child. Ember Eyes, with his goat and his too-powerful gun. Rachel clambering up a cliff face. Ellen...
"Masterton isn't a big town. The community's tight, if not always harmonious. So when a child goes missing it's a big deal for everyone. And when a second kid disappears, the whole town's holding their own children that little bit tighter. Lorraine doesn't...
"A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria...
"Having returned to the Mackenzie Country to deal with the unexpected death of his brother, Roland has more than enough on his plate. He could do without the demands of a cantankerous neighbour, the complaints of his partner back in Australia and discovering...
"Jena Morgan, Atlantic City's favorite go-go dancer, may have overreacted when she found her boyfriend balls deep in a stripper called Candy. Instead of washing her eyeballs with bleach, she drank a bottle of tequila and bought a house off the internet. A...
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh brings you a sinfully playful contemporary romance between two sworn enemies turned partners in crime ... Daniel Esera is a young god on the rugby field, a sexy and charming man who's got the world at his feet....
Leroy Madden is in trouble. Big, handsome, Fox Carmody trouble. Leroy has buried his attraction to the enigmatic fisherman in irritation and pointless bickering, keeping Fox at a safe distance. But with the troublesome man now living in Leroy's house, it's...
Karma. You reap what you sow, and KANE MARTIN isn't looking for forgiveness. But the arrival of ABE TYLER in Painted Bay has Kane dreaming of the impossible. The sexy, silver fox choreographer is determined to pull Kane out from the shadows, but Abe's career...
"In 1987, leather-clad tourist Blanca Nul goes missing in New Zealand at the height of summer. Local reporter Ray Moody gets a scoop that the foreigner had modelled for a pornographic magazine called the Blue Hotel. There is, however, a problem: since Eva,...
"This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Maori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to...
Fifteen years ago, her kid brother Eddy disappeared and she'seen looking for him ever since. When she's not training, Monday Woolridge works in a bar. She is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her...
19 short stories from some of the brightest storytelling talents from Australia and New Zealand: including international bestsellers and award winners. Through the prism of page-turning crime, mystery and thriller stories you will roam from the dusty Outback...
"Ellie Conway is an FBI agent who works serial crime cases. As a hobby, she runs an internet poetry chat room. When someone tries to kill her, it soon becomes obvious it's linked to her after-hours pursuits on cyberspace. Matters become complicated when her...
"In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, New Zealand-born Georgie's marriage has stagnated. But there's no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can't find his words, there's something in her husband's eye,...
"The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And...
Hana Westerman is a tenacious Maori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. Hana and...
"Recovering from the devastation of Rohan’s last job as The Actuary, Emma Andreyev tries to settle into life as lady of the manor in the small English town of Market Harborough. But as her husband retires his alter ego and promises to become a respectable...
"Life is tough when you're an eldritch abomination. Trillin isn't technically a person. She's a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it. But when a human witch stumbles into her world, Trillin...
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